Cricket

Batsman Ian Bell will miss the start of Warwickshire's season, after surgery to repair a ligament tear in his toe.

Ex-South Africa batsman Heino Kuhn will captain Kent while Sam Billings and Joe Denly are at the Indian Premier League.

England claim the ODI series in Sri Lanka by winning the second match of the three-game contest to take an unassailable 2-0 lead.

Afghanistan earn their first Test win after Rahmat Shah's 76 and Ihsanullah Janat's 65 helps them earn a seven-wicket victory over Ireland.

Quetta Gladiators win their first Pakistan Super League title as they beat Peshawar Zalmi by eight wickets in Karachi.

Afghanistan are favourites to win their Test match against Ireland in Dehradun as they require 118 more runs.

David Warner and Steve Smith say they were welcomed "with open arms" after meeting the Australia squad for the first time since the ball-tampering scandal.

Bangladesh's cricketers are "in shock" after witnessing the fatal mass shooting in a New Zealand mosque on Friday, says opener Tamim Iqbal.

Ireland trail Afghanistan by 120 runs with nine second-innings wickets remaining after day two of their Test match in Dehradun.

Natalie Sciver just misses out on a century as she helps England thrash hosts Sri Lanka by 154 runs in the first of three ODIs.

Why the growth of the Pakistan Super League - and the continued safety of the foreign players in it - could return regular international cricket to the country.

Tailender Tim Murtagh is pleased with his unbeaten 54 which helped Ireland recover from 85-9 to a total of 172 on day one of the Test against Afghanistan in India.

With England now in Sri Lanka, captain Heather Knight encounters the local wildlife and looks to recruit some young hopefuls.

James Anderson on the lack of associate nations allowed to play in the Cricket World Cup.

Ireland recover with a last-wicket stand of 87 between Tim Murtagh and George Dockrell but Afghanistan finish day one in India on top.

The Bangladesh cricket team escapes a fatal mass shooting a mosque in Christchurch and Test match against New Zealand is cancelled.

Ireland and Afghanistan meet in the two countries' second ever Test which starts in the Indian city of Dehradun on Friday.

New Warwickshire sport director Paul Farbrace is looking forward to stepping out of the England 'comfort zone'.

Australia beat India by 35 runs in the fifth one-day international in Delhi to overturn a 2-0 series deficit and win 3-2.

England show some fine form with the bat as they beat a Sri Lanka emerging team by 153 runs in a warm-up game in Colombo.